Berlin, September 5, 2025
UnNude: The Architecture of the Body
A Photography Exhibition at Die Akt Galerie
From September 5 to 28, 2025, Die Akt Galerie cordially invites you to visit the exhibition "UnNude: The Architecture of the Body." Under the photographic direction of Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador Burak Bulut Yıldırım, the human body is staged not as an erotic subject, but as an architectural sculpture.
Opening Reception
Friday, September 5, 2025, 7:00 PM
Exhibition Duration
September 5–28, 2025
Wednesday–Sunday, 2:00 PM–7:00 PM
Free Admission
Venue
Die Akt Galerie
Krossener Str. 34
10245 Berlin
About the Exhibition
UnNude turns the body into sculptural abstraction—beyond conventional eroticism. Shot over eighteen years and shown publicly for the first time, the series isolates fragments of skin and limb until they read as line, volume, and light. A dedicated screen extends the images in time: the same poses, filmed in the same light, breathe in slow motion so the body’s “graphics” appear to inhale and exhale. Faces are absent, gender recedes; what remains is architecture.
About the Artist
Burak Bulut Yıldırım is a Berlin-based fine-art photographer and Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador (2018–2025). His work has been exhibited across Europe. Following Berlin, a selection from UnNude will be shown at The Other Art Fair, London (Saatchi Art), 9–12 October 2025.
UnNude
Not nude, but newly seen. UnNude proposes a way of looking at the body in which flesh becomes geometry and desire gives way to form. The project gathers photographs made over eighteen years and presents them here for the first time as a sustained study.
Rather than portraying the person, UnNude isolates fragments—an elbow ridge, the curve of a torso, the hollow at the throat—until they read as line, plane and volume. Working almost exclusively in black and white, Burak Bulut Yıldırım uses hard light, deep shadow and tight framing to let skin behave like a drawing: edges cut, surfaces hold light, and the figure begins to resemble architecture. Faces are withheld; gender markers recede. The pictures encourage a reading that is formal rather than erotic.
The work is in conversation with the art history that shaped our ways of seeing the body. There are echoes of Auguste Rodin’s fragment sculptures and Barbara Hepworth’s carved voids; the stage geometries of Oskar Schlemmer and the camera experiments of László Moholy-Nagy are present in the attention to contour, light and reduction. From the classical academic nude to modernist abstraction, UnNude positions itself as a contemporary continuation—asking what remains of the body when narrative and identity are set aside.
A dedicated screen extends the still images in time. For each photograph, the same pose was filmed under the same light and later slowed down so that the body’s “graphic” breath becomes visible. This simple act—watching a line inhale and exhale—returns physiology to an image that otherwise feels carved and still. The installation moves between sculpture and cinema: prints hold form; the moving image reveals life.
UnNude is not a denial of sensuality but a reframing of it. The photographs invite attention, not consumption. They ask viewers to read, measure and decode—much as one would read a plan, a relief or a drawing—so that intimacy is experienced through looking rather than through disclosure.
This exhibition marks the first comprehensive presentation of the project. Following Berlin, a curated selection from UnNude will be shown at The Other Art Fair, London (Saatchi Art). Limited-edition archival prints are available.
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Burak Bulut Yıldırım is a Berlin-based fine-art photographer and Sony Europe Imaging Ambassador (2018–2025). His work has been exhibited across Europe.
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